Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole - Drinking Stories

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ah Oh we don't share I would self but mostly the best Irish food is given this is three of the four Irish food groups I understand this is the one one you know they say that they say that basically speaking of said Valentine's Day they say that Guinness is an aphrodisiac I have not found it to be so oh I know that you eat it well the only thing the Guinness gets up is your hopes you know I want to ask you because because you do have you know I alluded to it before they you have a reputation as as do many of the great actors of your generation of drinking some while you work or as you work especially in the theater world and I was curious is that really true is there you know I wouldn't it be terrible for me to lie on your show and say it's not yeah I remember I tell you a great story I tell you a story well that's sort of what these shows are all about it's dumped tales nicely for us yeah go ahead why a story all right we had the two guys who we were there were three of us legends for drinking and for having a your roughly Idlewild rather lazy in life one was Richard Burton of course he's row to be the great O'Toole and Harris I know Tula Oh doin idea to play together down in Bristol Old Vic which is very famous stood at theatres in England and we have enduring the play there's about 15 to 20 minutes when actually we're not on stage so every single night we come offstage together - across the street doctor taxis into the bar we be throwing back beers and beers watching the time making sure they got back on time for our cue right huh well one night we got so engrossed in telling stories that we forgot that we were on stage and the next minute this the door burst open and the stage the stage manager came rushing on us said Harris Oh - for God I was waiting for you to play has stopped dead come on we dropped our drink quickly down our throat so we danced across the street we were ducking taxis ducking this and that I dashed it I had to make my entrance just before him as I hit the stage door over the planet I heard my cue iconic I'll never make it - stop the stairs - to cross pause on stage Harris is not on auteur is not on I just - Don tripped over a wire slid right across the stage right down to the footlights and hung over onto the lap of two or three sort of Bristolian old women I know - was - come on next and this woman looked at me in shock as my saw the head was in her lap and she said out loud good and I looked at I said madam if you think I've dropped Whitlow to me you are of the school and perhaps that the heritage and the the time we're drinking was just something you did when you weren't doing anything else is that a fair way to express it and when you were doing something good and when when you would go out for an evening anything ever untoward happened like would you the next day would you wake up in a I mean how did that work many men well there's one in particular which I'm fond of is my my my friend the late Peter Finch and we were in Dublin together on the lash lash that means usually having a drop of something cheerful I see and then doing a lot of leaping and shrieking and saying why not yeah and finchy was living living about a few miles out of Dublin and I went back with him to his house we were gonna spend the night and it was too late about four ish 4 a.m. yeah and there was a tiny little hole in the wall bar and with what would just drop in for the last one well we went in and we had a couple of drinks and the barman and the tiny little really debt is the place he said done boys you had enough you're having no more so finchy and I said no no no no no no no no no much more no no no no no Suzie you're out so we bought the bar problem solved the following morning I work everything she said you know we did last night right I said no no no he said we bought a bar so immediately on the telephone to cancel checks but they've not been cashed so we went to the bar and there was a man with the two checks and he said now you two boys gonna behave yourself and we fell for him I mean he was such a sweet guy and he hasn't bothered cashing ever the checks back and we tore them up about a year later we'd be used to used to pop in there every night on the way back to finish place but a year later a year later he died so finchy and I went over to Ireland for the funeral and because we got to know him a little bit and his family went to the to the cemetery and there was his group round the grave the family sobbing noisily and finchy and I joined them on our knees and butt whuppin came up and tapped me on the shoulder and we were at the wrong grave it all counts Oh how do you do at any time during your life speaking of that at any time during your life have you have you thought what you might like as a final message on your tombstone oh yes oh yes this arrived in the 60s I had a an old leather jacket er which I was inordinately fond that it was covered in Guinness and blood the usually yes and I sent it off to the cleaner my wife sent it off to the cleaner and it came back pinned on it was a Sycamore cleaners it de-stresses us to return work which is not perfect so I'm having out on my tombstone that's my guitar lovely would you have mellowed to have you not I have didn't you do some some really strange escapades you and a tool and some of your oh yeah your buddies there was once upon a time and Peter O'Toole and my 75% of our bodyweight was vodka and tonic and what what did you know that stop drinking down dispute to wake up with a body cannot come - yes gonna be did you do something really outrageous well I remember Peter and I were great friends when we were beginning as actors and I remembered one great story teller sure great story O'Toole and I I was at a mass to do a play in the West End called vows written by Bart Albrecht and I thought I was all wrong for it but I shouldn't play because the part is kind of a lot of small little elephant eager I thought it was quite handsome yet I mean yeah and so I was amazed when I said no - no - decided to do it and I thought he's gonna make he Lawrence of Arabia just come out and I thought this is a disastrous move from O'Toole's point of view why would he want to do something like this that he can't really play so I thought well gee and the reviews were wonderful when he came out and I thought I'd have to go and see this play because I can't believe he's good in it so I didn't want to go as Richard Harris because the front of house manager will tell O'Toole that Harris is there so I went to a costumer and I got dressed as a Roman Catholic priest and I went in a mate of mine and bought a chicken they set up in the gallery dressed as a priest with you know with the brie and the rosary beads in the Hat and they okarin Allah and I'm watching O'Toole and every act he's better and better and by the end of the play he's unbelievably brilliant so I have to go back and tell him he's great but I can't go back dressed as a priest he's asked me why try get one of those means here so I said to my friend swap clothes give me your suit you take the priests out of it I will swap well the next day in one of the newspapers The Daily Express said there was commotion during the matinee a Peter O'Toole's ball where a Roman Catholic priest was seen to undress in the gallery found back on us all tooled with this guy's clothes on and he never said a word he obviously found out he never said a word seven years later I have a hit record thanks to you MacArthur Park which I did hear for the first time went to number 21 to number one and hi and I decided to go out on a one-man concert tour and I go up to the north of England where no one can see me break it in okay taking it on the road on the road way up in Scunthorpe now even scorpions don't know where it's gone for peace so I went out and I'm doing this show breaking my show in coming into the West End and I'm singing a song and I hear commotion out the back of the hall so I stopped the orchestra I said what's going on out there and a voice said I'm Peter O'Toole I'm here dressed as a nun seven years later we waited we waited a year oh that's marvelous yeah seven years let me use you will bring you on the last five minutes the quarry fails you know maybe you do know this maybe you don't know this I don't know if you keep in touch with a man or not Richard Harris has been on our show many many times in New York City he's always delightful always charming always has great stories and sometimes he has stories about you and I was wondering if if tonight maybe you happen to have a story about Richard Harris Oh shuffle through my memories clean whatever you want this is British TV go nuts haha Oh in the old days and witches and I were young poor ah he lived in the dirty little spot in Earls Court it was a cupboard I fancy which I rented and one night we've been frolicking what does that mean let me stop you right there when you say frolicking what are we talking about what is it kind of joy seabird really an earthen oh Allah oK we've finished our frolicking and I thought I was living nowhere in particular so I thought I might as well Kip on Richards floor or he's sure or even if he was too drunk I could keep in the bed didn't really matter and we got back to this little filthy spot of his in a school and that we were hungry and not hungry for beer or whiskey a meal Hamish meal hungry huh yeah so we opened the freezer and inside there was one chopped pork chop I don't know it was a pork chop or a lamb chop or what kind of shocked people I'm gonna pretend it was a pork chop there was this old hog kosher pork chop ancient clearly be in there for quite a long time not as safely as a camel so we smelt it looked at it and thought better of it we weren't so we threw it to a window pop came the morning we left his hole and under the window from which we've thrown the pork chop there was a dead dog my dear friend Richard Harris tells the same story his version it's a cat whole different deal which will show you what condition Richard was it thought it might have been a cab yeah by either way it's a lovely story you know it's funny because you mentioned Peter O'Toole but but it's you know with in the last couple of years it's becoming more I think more chic probably in the last 10-15 years and correct me if I'm wrong more chic actually probably to be Irish there was a time probably when you were starting out I'm thinking in the 50s when when being an Irish actor trying to make a living in England was very difficult was very rough we it was very I think I was the first Irish born actor to play leading roles and to get Academy Award nominations and that was the very very first and when I got to England first though it really was tough you were casted the policeman or as a Navi on the street or you know a labourer you couldn't get it you could not get a decent job and I and I remember a story that I was doing in my first year out of school drama school I was playing in Macbeth and I was playing a small part in Macbeth of the doctrine this snobby sophisticated racist English actor was playing back then and he had to have a whipping boy and twist iris because he was Irish God's sake how to schedule allowed to speak the English language correctly don't you know you don't pronounce it like that oh for god sake cut you scatter the right mark oh god I thought I hated this man I said I swear I'd get you one day so now you must remember I playing the doctor came the opening night packed house Harris's playing the doctor and the motive and the most important scene in Macbeth is when Lady Macbeth commits suicide and I as the doctor have to come on stage from my tiny little part my only little entrance and I'd have to say and and that bed turns and he says how goes the Queen and I have to say the Queen My Lord is dead and then he stops and he says she should have died Hereafter now it leads into the greatest soliloquy from Macbeth which is tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow creeps without petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time that's his cue I give him the cue I thought I'll get him I hate him Paris the Queen dies Harris comes on stage the actresses how does the Queen and I said she's fine she's terrific she's grand and I know I'm fired she's great and she'll be right down now any minute and you cannot great together I got off the stage quick and the last thing you heard me say bring out the stage door was tacky oh my god all right how much time we do we have here Jeff hmm oh great cuz I don't I do not want this to stop will you come back please do come back I'm sure they didn't want to mention that I think what much it is Valentine's Day and you have a reputation for you know you have the many loves in your life you've been married how many times twice you've been married twice okay and you've had a romance difficult for you they threw me out I mean I mean I have to I'm I must tell you I am the closest friends of my two ex-wives Edie they were totally justified throw me out I mean I was impossible totally impossible never there never here never home always away somewhere I tell you a funny story actually my my first one my first minute you can miss my first wife was dip was divorcing me right uh-huh and she had this sort of very shrewd lawyer and then and my first wife is a sweetheart and I'm and I she's a sweetheart today she's my best mate but he never heard a lawyer never told her but he hired a private detective to follow me around London to build up a kind of case against me there was no need to build a case against me just open the newspapers and it was cases against Germany it's richard harry justifiable divorce and her partner so i was tipped off that this guy was following me and he was watching every move I made and I found out his name and I found out his home number and I kept in the pocket well about a month afterwards I was the dorcester hotel in London and I was really drunk I had I dragged about a bottle of but no brandy twas actually right and he's about three o'clock in the morning I thought I'd have some fun so I get his card out of my pocket and I ring him up to his home they're very tired voice said hello and I said dad are you mr. so-and-so the private detective he says yes I am well this is Richard Harris he didn't know he didn't think I knew I said well I gotta tell you something I said I am pissed drunk can you can you tell us the other give us a story about yourself and Peter O'Toole oh well we were great friends Peter he was in the Academy in London and I was in the Academy not the same one in London we kind of were would chums we've kind of both students school kids school kids yeah and there was a play on and Brighton plod school fee was doing a play we want to go down and see and we don't have any money we pay too much money so he had a no rackety old car which will it down to Brighton and you know brightens on the coast right on the Seacoast of the page and all that kind of thing and we go down there I'll be [ __ ] we booked a presidential suites the hotel you know we got too much money with extra big big shots we go to the play and we drink all weekend we own room service but finally I said we have to leave Peter about an hour how much money good on he said he'd nothing I had nothing we couldn't pay the bill it was pouring with rain outside storm and the beaches were dangerous to swim and there was huge waves and so forth you can't swim and I said to Peter look I got an idea let's take a take off your clothes now strip so he stripped I strip lift and we left on a run the way a good time we rolled him up with you and we rolled him up into a bar and we my true them out the window into a little side street where our window was facing out as I sleep out the bathroom window it landed I said come on let's pretend we're going for a swim because they couldn't get out without paying the bill should we put towels around this we walked out the lobby hello and they said oh and this woman though the manager Esther where you're going to we're going for a swim - swim and swim it's dangerous the waves that can treat all out there there's a crowns will be due to cancer with that I said yes we're going for a swim the boys Irish but tough we know how to deal this think how do we go Hoover out the door we snuck up a little side Lane got our clothes into the car got a scar up didn't pay the before like the end of the story was this or tool now years later as it learns Moravia he became a big star I did Camelot or something because big star and I go down to Brighton 10 years later to do a concert and I unfortunately forgot about the story of those stealing that hotel not paying the bill and I go in and I'm and I recognized the lobby oh my god and I'm signing my name and it's the same woman behind signed in and I covered and I'm walking toward delicious Oh mr. Harris so I said yeah she said we thought you and mr. O'Toole drowned Oh my car would it make it straight down they're gonna kick thank you very much enjoy the day lords
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Keywords: Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Drinking, Drunk, Guinness, Oscar, Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Tribute, Story, Funny, Peter Finch, Carrickfergus, Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Tonight Show, Johnny Carson, Brandy, Whiskey, Hellraisers, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Bristol Old Vic
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Length: 25min 9sec (1509 seconds)
Published: Wed Jan 13 2016
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